Wire mattress



No. 6|7,I73. Pateted lan. 3, |899.

-F. J. MAIER.

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(Application filed Oct. 10, 1896;)

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FRANK JOSEPH MAIER, OF TRENTON, NEV JERSEY.

WIRE MATTRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,173, dated J' anuary 3, 1899.

Application tiled October 10,1896. Serial No. 608,479. (No model.)

To all whom, zit may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK JOSEPH MAIER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Trenton, in the State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in IVoven-Vire Mattresses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in .woven-wire mattresses which in some cases are further supported by spiral springs whose upper coil is threaded into the web of the mattress. Its object is to provide an improved arrangement of hinge-like joint or connection between two of such mattresses by which they may be folded together. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a general plan view of my invention as applied to two mattresses which are hinged together. Fig. 2 is a detailed enlarged View showing the formation of the hinge-joint, one end of such joint only being shown.

My invention relates to the edges of each of the mattresses which are to be folded together.

As is well known, around the edges of the mattress two, three, or more coils are woven together, which forms a kind of framework from which and to which the interior cross strands or webs are carried. When two of such mattresses are to be folded, one edge of the one is usually connected to one edge of the other by spirally twisting a coil or coils of Wire along their length, which alternately takes hold of each edge, and thus forms a kind of hinge-joint. The ends of these wires, however, are troublesome in their disposal, as however carefully they are bent out of the way they are apt to project and tear the bedding, 85o. In this my invention I may makethe framework of one of the mattresses complete-sayor instance, that shown at G. I then take a long straight piece of double or treble coil 7 and while straight directly twist or coil it into and along the one side of the frame-coil 6. The two outer ends 8 S are now bent at right angles to the connecting-joint and continued around and their ends secured together in the usual manner, thus forming the second framework 7 for the interlacing. Thus a strong hinge-joint is made directly between the two frame-coils, with nov wire ends about such joint.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In woven-wire mattresses, the combination with a wire mattress having the continuous all-around-frame coil 6, of an attached Wire mattress having the continuous all-around frame coil '7, interwoven therewith, substantially as set forth and shown.

FRANK JOSEPH MAIER.

Vitnesses:

C. HAYWARD POWELL, ERNEST W. JONES. 

